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Originally posted by SaturnFX
Anyhow...here is my thought.
We seem to be amazed that the universe is made up of simply bits of information...
But why are we amazed at this? Simple..because we are trained to think of a computer and the way we designed it to "think" is artificial...therefore as we start to understand the universe, we think this also is artificial.
I disagree.
I think the universe is as natural as it always has been...and our computers is also a natural evolution that we have created...no, the universe isn't synthetic..rather, or computers are organic
Originally posted by rtyfx
reply to post by LeoVirgo
I think it natural for us to think of a Creator.
Our life experience has been that everything has a beginning and an end.
Originally posted by rtyfx
reply to post by LeoVirgo
I think it natural for us to think of a Creator.
Our life experience has been that everything has a beginning and an end and there is always someone or something responsible for it.edit on 22-3-2012 by rtyfx because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bonkrh
thanks op. MIND = BLOWN
would a simulated world mean that everything is true about "put your mind to it and anything is possible"? i would assume if we are playing this like a video game we would infact control everything unless it was placed as a story mode...
Originally posted by Lazarus Short
Laz comments:
It's about String Theory, that is, a theory, not yet physical law.
At this point, the theory is not falsify-able, so it is not science by definition. Note that the speaker on the first video waffled when asked about experiments. No, he is a theoretical physicist - no experiments here, folks.
This all may be a modern repeat of the cycles and epicycles of the Old Astronomy.
Laz may be totally wrong.
Originally posted by Enemyc0mbatant
Very good post very thought provoking...
I once heard this " we are the universe manifesting to the point where it is able to view and interact with itself"
Originally posted by Blaine91555
Originally posted by rigel4
does it really matter
if we are a simulation anyway, It's real to us
Actually it does not. Your right. It would change nothing for us.
Originally posted by rtyfx
reply to post by WhatAreThey
If we have error-correcting code in our DNA wouldn't we be perfect by now? Wouldn't it have corrected all genetic anomalies?
Maybe the parameters don't specify perfection. If we were perfect we'd be God.edit on 22-3-2012 by rtyfx because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by sylvie
Sadly however, with the advent of science grubbing for research money and even jumping in bed with politicians, theory does not mean what it used to. Science is far from pure these days. I'm sure many in science now would play to the absurd if it brings in the money.